Why are we still obsessed with the royal family?

) “Now,” says Rieden, “[they’re seeing] how devilishly handsome he was, the sacrifices he made for love and his commitment to duty, and to service.”

“I think there’s a real appetite for people to just be looking back and feeling nostalgic about everything at the moment because things have been so disruptive in the last 12 months, and [the last] five years,” says Bastin, a British royalty specialist. “We’re now realising what we’ve lost” – steadfastness, a selfless devotion to the greater good – “and the monarchy represents that. Looking back at Philip’s life, we’re looking, actually, at a world that has passed, not just the man.

“We like to think we’re casting a bit of a cynical eye over what’s going on [with the royals],” says Bastin. “The number of people over the last 20-odd years who have said to me, ‘Oh my goodness, why on earth do you study the British royals? What a pack of losers.’ And their next question is, ‘Have you met her [the Queen]? What’s she like?’ People have always been fascinated by them, but Australians have always sort of had to cover it up, they’re a bit abashed about it, a bit blushy.

“They love the notion of the monarchy and the whole narrative around them, they find that fascinating, a bit like the Kardashians,” she says. “It’s all just celebrity fodder, some of it just with better jewels and bigger houses.”

The media hypes up the hysteria among the masses

Obsessed? They are a living fairy story! Good as a placebo, opium for the masses.

Because we ordinary people just fillers in this world and the royal and film stars only counts.

Seems that the media are more obsessed than anyone

Just because journalists write endlessly about a certain topic does not necessarily mean the general public is even the slightest bit interested!

no, you've generated all these pieces, no one asked you too and to be honest, the way that the media bang on about this very, very small group of irrelevant people who sponge like a parasite off the public teat is getting tiresome to say the least. Don't forget that they (1/2)

Mystery

The Firm is up and still running. We are f. Ed if we do and ducked if we don’t. Rule Britannia. Piss on the world. Tyrant dictatorship. But, Elizabeth has done her best. Must get rid of them and find better despots.

How lucky is it we currently have travel restrictions or how many politicians would have been junketing it over there in a flash to 'pay respect'. Bring on the Republic.

For gods sake give it a rest. Is this an effort to detract from LNP chaos

is it time for a referendum pray

A media full of...

He is not a celebrity, he is Royalty there is a difference. Royalty is about service to the country.

Way too much coverage. People make these weak links back to Australia to show relevance but really they are just that, weak.

I don't know. Why is the Media so obsessed with the Royal Family?

We are not. The fascination is about watching the royal family and monarchy dissolve.

Im not

I’m not obsessed with the royal family. I am a republican

RIP, Prince Philip.

I dunno. Maybe because papers like the SMH never shut the fuck up about it?

Serf's up!

Ritual and legacy gives a sense of connection and grounding to greater history particularly to a country that is 'young' as Australia.

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